You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

Things are always better in the morning.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

If you pray, you purify your heart.

Beloved, there is no way to measure the continuing influence of one godly mother.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.